5th grade zentangle

Grade 5 figure drawing!

Drawing from wood figure drawing dolls

Learning about "proportion"

Grade 4 Name designs

Can you find their hidden names? 

5th Grade Shading and Value

Fall leaves

Observational drawing

Warm vs. Cool colors

5th Grade Talent

Yes, a fifth grader painted this.  Amazing!!

Native Rain Sticks

Paper Mache
Newspaper
Tempera Paint
The inside has rice and tinfoil

5th Grade Talent

Classification of animals

5th grade Space Ships

Aztec Suns

Great lesson for 5th graders.. The students had already learned about the Aztecs earlier in the year, so this project fit well into their curriculum.   They learned about Mexican tin foil art, the Aztecs, embossing..and much more! 

Last 5th Grade Op Art

5th Grade Op Art

Op Art Awesomeness

5th grader! 

Self Portraits

Self portraits can be tricky...students can get easily frustrated while doing this lesson.  None the less, it's a really important part of the curriculum and the outcome was amazing!  I taught this lesson with grade 3, 4 and 5.  We focused on proportion, color mixing and following the form.   You won't see any kids in my room use a plain brown pencil when coloring their hair.  We mix a whole bunch of different colors to make a RICH color! When we color in our face, we follow the shape of our face instead of coloring in one direction. 

Van Gogh anyone?

This project I will do every year! I had so much fun teaching it and the kids love learning about Van Gogh. We started with oil pastels and then finished it off with a watercolor wash. Each students picture was different from the next!

Native Lesson

The kids loved this lesson.  Every student had to bring in their own paper towel roll.  They taped off one end and then paper mached the roll.  The following week we filled the stick with rice, molded tinfoil into spirals and put them in the roll and taped off the other end of the stick.  We also did a power point on Wampanoag Indians and Native art.  Students got native American pattern references before painting, so they had some ideas of what to paint.  .... Rain sticks! 

The Scream by Edvard Munch

The first lesson of the year for 5th grade was all about teamwork.  I gave every student a tiny square of the painting The Scream by Edvard Munch, and I asked them to produce their square on larger paper.  They used oil pastels and learned how to color blend.  In the end, we put them all together and then compared it to the actual painting.  It was really neat to see how each class interpreted it differently.